Mara Bar-Serapion - Jesus is the wise king

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Author's Background

Mara Bar-Serapion was a Syrian who lived at least 73 years after Jesus Christ. He left a legacy manuscript, a letter, written to his son Serapion. The letter is now in the possession of the British Museum.

Reference To Jesus Christ

What benefit did the Athenians obtain by putting Socrates to death? Famine and plague came upon them as judgment for their crime. Or, the people of Samos for burning Pythagoras? In one moment their country was covered with sand. Or the Jews by murdering their wise king?. . . after that their kingdom was abolished. God rightly avenged these men. . . the wise king. . . lived on in the teachings he enacted. - British Museum, Syriac Manuscript, Additional 14,658

Conclusion

This reference reveals several key things:

	1) Jesus was regarded as a wise king.
	2) Jesus was murdered.
	3) Jesus' teachings lived on.

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